Canadian Statistics Weekly Review highlights crop, housing, and trade gains
Wheat shipments rose to 191.2 million bushels in the nine months to April, surpassing last year. May wheat exports reached 16.269 million bushels. Prairie seeding was 87 percent complete by May 31, with overall Canadian seedings at 84 percent. New dwelling starts and completions rose in Q1, and construction ends May were higher than a year earlier. Railway carloadings climbed through May, up over 12 percent year over year. Labour shows workers’ earnings at 3.26 billion for Q1, up about 10 percent. industrial employment and wages hit records. Consumer price indexes mostly fell in April. manufacturing output remains strong with motor vehicles near last year’s level. In May steel ingot and pig iron output reached new peaks, with five month gains above last year.
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Prairie Provinces
All Canada
Bureau
Capsule Holidays Resort to Oxygen Tents in Paris Center
In Paris an oxygen centre offers 10 sessions of 25 minutes in transparent tents with color coded rooms simulating mountain seaside and countryside. Prices at 37 dollars reflect the era’s lookalike experiences as synthetic novelties replace real holiday travel.
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Paris
Sherbrooke Record
Chain cure for car sickness? Father drags chain on road
A medical column reports an unusual remedy for car sickness: attach a chain to the rear axle to ground static electricity. Doctors cite success in children and pets, with the method producing immediate relief in some cases, though explanations vary and experiences differ.
New Guinea to Produce Cocoa for Export Growth
New Guinea begins cocoa production with an expected 1040 tons of beans this year and a potential 4908 tons from existing plantings. Plans aim to expand for export, but shade trees must be chosen to provide moist heat while shielding cocoa saplings from direct sun.
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New Guinea
Giare
Hardy Plant Orchid Flourishes From Tropics to Arctic
The orchid ranks among the hardiest flowering plants. It grows in steaming tropical climates and in rugged Arctic regions, thriving in extreme environments.
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Tropics
Arctic
Shelterbelt weed control boosts tree vigor in Prairie belts
Forestry expert FOH Dunlop of the Indian Head station states that shelterbelt trees grow better when grass and weeds are kept down. He notes that keeping belts weed-free for several years, using narrow spike-tooth cultivators or row-crop equipment, supports survival and allows ground shade and leaf litter to suppress competition.
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Ottawa
Prairie Provinces
Foh Dunlop
Canada Department of Agriculture
Indian Head
Sask
Nature
Dutch wives gain legal freedom amid Holland reform
The Netherlands moves toward ending the Napoleonic code subjection of married women. A government bill, already passed by the lower house, would grant wives independent legal status with full rights in contracts and property. Justice Minister J. C. Van Oven touted the measure as ending centuries of legal inequality for Dutch wives.
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Holland
J. C. van Oven
Netherlands restricts exports of table potatoes in 1956
The Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture on April 11 1956 decided to restrict export licences for table potatoes and the Canadian Commercial Secretary in The Hague noted that exports would be halted from April 21 including licensed shipments. The measure targets table potatoes while allowing feed potatoes and aims to prevent domestic shortages despite ample current stock.
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Netherlands
Spare parts for humans reach new medical frontier
Chicago reports rising interest in organ and tissue transplants as doctors predict routine use of corneas skin bone grafts and eventually whole organs. Developing tissue banks deep freezing sterilization and synthetic grafts aim to standardize replacements much like automobile parts.
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Chicago
James B. Brown
Washington University Medical School
St. Louis
U.S
Barnes Hospital
U.S. Naval Hospital
Bethesda
Clifford W. Leitz
Sandy Fleming
Evanston
Ill
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Super
Son
University of Michigan
American College of Surgeons
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Henry T. Bahnson
Johan Hopkins University
Baltimore
American Roentgen Bay Society
Charles A. Hufnagel
Georgetown University
Kentucky Academy of General Practice
Louisville
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Pome
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Mobile
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University of Michigan School of Medicine
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